Cohort Profile: The biopsychosocial religion and health study (BRHS)

Lee, Jerry; Morton, Kelly R.; Walters, James W.; Bellinger, Denise L.; Butler, Terry; Wilson, Curtis M.; Walsh, Eric; Ellison, Christopher G.; McKenzie, Monica M.; Fraser, Gary E.

doi:10.1093/ije/dyn244

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“…Data were from the Biopsychosocial Religion and Health Study (BRHS; Lee et al, 2009). BRHS investigators drew a random sample of 20,000 cases from the 96,194 in the Adventist Health Study database (AHS-2; Butler et al, 2008).…”

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Prevalence and correlates of pain interference in older adults: Why treating the whole body and mind is necessary

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et al. 2015

Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies

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Summary Our study presents pain-related interference rates in a sample of community-dwelling, older adults and determines factors associated with these restrictions. Participants were 9506 respondents to the Biopsychosocial Religion and Health Study (66.8% female and 33.2% male; average age = 62.3 years). In this sample, 48.2% reported no pain-related interference, whereas 37.7% reported moderate and 14.1% reported severe interference. As hypothesized, older age, female gender, lower education, financial strain, traumatic experiences, worse health, increased body mass index, poor sleep, and depressive symptoms all were associated with higher pain interference ratings (ordered logistic regression/three-level pain criterion; odds ratios p < 0.05). Our findings are similar to those from younger adults, and they suggest enduring effects of trauma on health and reveal the complexity of chronic pain in community-dwelling, older adults.

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Prevalence and correlates of pain interference in older adults: Why treating the whole body and mind is necessary

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Haviland

Oda

et al. 2015

Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies

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“…Data were from the Biopsychosocial Religion and Health Study (BRHS; Lee et al, 2008), which randomly sampled participants from the Adventist Health Study (AHS-2) – a cohort study of approximately 96,000 Seventh-day Adventists investigating cancer, diet, and lifestyle (Butler et al, 2008). Seventh-day Adventists are evangelical Protestants who include healthy lifestyle beliefs in their religious doctrine; as such, 1% smoke, 7% consume alcohol, and only 47% eat meat.…”

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Traumatic experiences, major life stressors, and self-reporting a physician-given fibromyalgia diagnosis

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Morton

Oda

et al. 2010

Psychiatry Research

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The contribution of stress to the pathophysiology of fibromyalgia has been the subject of considerable debate. The primary purpose of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between traumatic and major life stressors and a fibromyalgia diagnosis in a large group of older women and men. Data were from the federally-funded Biopsychosocial Religion and Health Study, and subjects were 10,424 of the 10,988 survey respondents-two-thirds women and one-third men-providing responses to a fibromyalgia question. Average age was 61.0 ± 13.5 years. A physician-given fibromyalgia diagnosis in a subject's lifetime was reported by 3.7% of the sample, 4.8% of the women and 1.3% of the men. In two multivariable logistic regression models (all respondents and women only, controlling for age, sex, race/ethnicity, and education), two traumatic experience types (sexual and physical assault/abuse) were associated with a fibromyalgia diagnosis. Two other trauma types (life-threatening and emotional abuse/neglect) and major life stress experiences were not. The highest odds ratios in both models were those for sexual assault/abuse followed by physical assault/abuse. The relationship between age and fibromyalgia was curvilinear in both models (odds ratios rising until approximately age 63 and declining thereafter). In the all-subjects model, being a woman increased the odds of a fibromyalgia diagnosis, and in both models, fibromyalgia was associated with being White (versus non-White) and lower education. We recommend that researchers investigate the relationship between stress and fibromyalgia in concert with genetic and biomarker studies.

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“…Loma Linda researchers, nevertheless, took on this challenge with funding from the National Institute of Aging for what became the Biopsychological Religion and Health Study (BHRS). The goal was to select a sample from the AHS-2 cohort and obtain additional psychological and religious data (the Psychosocial Manifestations of Religion Sub-study, PsyMRS) and additional biological measures for an even smaller subset (the Biological Manifestations of Religion Sub-study, BioMRS) (Lee et al 2009)-at two points in time four years apart.…”

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The Global Influence of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Diet

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Abstract:The emphasis on health ministry within the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) movement led to the development of sanitariums in mid-nineteenth century America. These facilities, the most notable being in Battle Creek, Michigan, initiated the development of vegetarian foods, such as breakfast cereals and analogue meats. The SDA Church still operates a handful of food production facilities around the world. The first Battle Creek Sanitarium dietitian was co-founder of the American Dietetics Association which ultimately advocated a vegetarian diet. The SDA Church established hundreds of hospitals, colleges, and secondary schools and tens of thousands of churches around the world, all promoting a vegetarian diet. As part of the 'health message,' diet continues to be an important aspect of the church's evangelistic efforts. In addition to promoting a vegetarian diet and abstinence from alcohol, the SDA church has also invested resources in demonstrating the health benefits of these practices through research. Much of that research has been conducted at Loma Linda

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Cohort Profile: The biopsychosocial religion and health study (BRHS)

Cited by 59 publications

References 36 publications

Prevalence and correlates of pain interference in older adults: Why treating the whole body and mind is necessary

Prevalence and correlates of pain interference in older adults: Why treating the whole body and mind is necessary

Traumatic experiences, major life stressors, and self-reporting a physician-given fibromyalgia diagnosis

The Global Influence of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Diet

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